Re: why is the sims 4 game being so slow?

thank you, i'll try this method and tell you if it works out! 🙂

I’m having the same issue. I have a very high end gaming laptop so it should be able to handle the size of cc. I updated all of my mods. I haven’t updated my cc bc 9 times out of 10 they don’t have updated versions. But what concerns me is that my fiancé is having lag problems. He also has a high end gaming laptop, no mods or cc. This tells me it’s an issue with the update itself. Neither of us own the new EP bc I want this issue fixed first.  

@candiecoatediv There are some CC items that were broken by the June 3 game patch. Something like this is not likely to be causing the lag but if any of your CC items were outdated by the patch it's probably not helping either. Here's a link with more details on that:

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/976565/broken-updated-mods-cc-june-20-eco-lifestyle-patch/#Comment_17524472

I use several mods in my game and about 300 CC items and I'm not currently having any lag problems. I have all the EP's except Get To Work and I'm patched up to the latest release. I'm not 100% certain but to me it seems like they made some changes to the game lighting in the June 3 patch and it's possible something like this could be causing problems with certain types of video cards. You might want to check out this Tech Report to see if this appears similar to the problem you are seeing in your game:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Weird-lag-in-build-buy-mode-and-sometimes-in-Live-Mode-too/m-p/9178996#M178040

If so, perhaps you could post in that thread as higher numbers of replies should draw more attention from EA. Reading through it, I'm not seeing a fix yet but at least you can get an idea of what has already been tried. If you choose to post there, please add as many details as you can and include a dxdiag if possible. Here's a link on how to do that:  

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/S

I'm just a regular Sims player, I don't work for EA, Sony, or Microsoft.

Thank you! I’ll check those out. 

hi. the methods you suggested sadly didn't work very well. they worked for a few days but the game still froze many times and lagged. i removed the localthumbache package, and even removed my whole mods folder and re-downloaded new versions, but the game continues to freeze and be slow. every time i try to switch sims or click on an object to do an action, the game takes ages to actually load it up.. this makes the game really boring and annoying to play and i might stop playing if i cant fix this. 

@abc1381541026  Please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

is this it?

@abc1381541026  Yes, that's what I wanted, thanks.  Your dxdiag is missing a lot of information though, because it crashed while running.  Between that and the system errors at the end, it's a good idea to run a couple of checks on your Windows system files.  Here's how:

• Hit Windows key-X
• Choose either “PowerShell (Administrator)” or “Command prompt (Administrator),” whichever option is offered
• Inside the window that appears, copy and paste “DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth” without quotes into the window, and enter
• The system will start validating soon. If it throws an error, please list it here
• After it reaches 100%, hit Windows key-X again
• Again, choose “PowerShell (Administrator)” or “Command prompt (Administrator)”
• Inside the window, copy and paste “sfc /scannow” without quotes into the window, and enter
• Post the message you receive here

Restart your computer, and manually run any pending Windows updates.  Hit Windows key-i, select Update & Security, and click the button to check for updates.  If you have a number of them pending, it may take a few tries, with restarts in between, to get them all to run.

Please also disable Game Bar.  Hit Windows key-i, select Settings > Gaming > Game Bar, and turn it off (the first option at the top).

Restart again, test the game, and let me know whether it still runs as slowly as before.  If it does, please run another dxdiag.

Just so you know, with only 4 GB memory, your laptop is always going to run the game more slowly than it would with more memory installed, and probably more slowly than it did when you had fewer packs installed.  That's unavoidable to a certain extent.  But there are still steps you can take to help, such as not running any other apps while you play and restarting the game before launching, to free up as much RAM as possible.

@abc1381541026  Can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing?  For reference, this is what PowerShell looks like (first screenshot):

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/25581-open-windows-powershell-windows-10-a.html

although you'll need the Admin version, not the normal one.

@abc1381541026  It can take a few seconds to start, but it should definitely show that DISM is running.  Please restart your computer, try again, and if nothing happens after a couple minutes, please take a screenshot of the Command Prompt (admin) or PowerShell (admin) window, and paste it here.  You can hit Windows key-shift-S and drag your cursor over the section of screen you want to capture, then open Paint and crtl-V to paste the image.

hi, i think this worked. here is an attachment of what came up. do i just start the game as normal now?

@abc1381541026  Try running the game, and if it's still slow, please run another dxdiag and attach it to a post.  Some of the information in the first one was missing, and I'd like to see if there are any obvious issues among the missing info.